Dickersonville Cemetery
Lewiston, Niagara County, New York

Dickersonville Cemetery is on the north side of Ridge Road (State Rt.
104), a half mile west of Dickersonville Road, in the Town of Lewiston,
Niagara County, New York.

An early burial ground was situated on the north side of Ridge Road
between Ransomville Road and Dickersonville Road on land owned by Achish
Pool. Between 1811 and 1851 at least 28 persons were buried here.

In 1851 Isaac Woolson set aside a portion of his land for a new burial
ground. According to local tradition the burials from the Pool cemetery
were removed to the new ground at about this time, and at least some
of the original headstones were used to pave the cellar floor of a nearby
farmhouse. The new cemetery contained 30 lots.

In 1854 Isaac Woolson sold the burial ground to the newly formed Dickersonville
Cemetery Association. In 1872 the Association purchased adjacent land
from Gideon Shippy to expand the cemetery to its present size of 2.5
acres. The added ground contained 103 lots.

The Dickersonville Cemetery Association was most active in the late
1800's. In the early 1900's, as members died or moved away, local interest
waned and few burials took place. In 1946 John Adams, the sole surviving
Trustee, disbanded the Association.

Dickersonville Cemetery was abandoned for the next 35 years. Brush and
trees grew over the graves, time and vandals took their toll, and many
markers were misplaced, lost or destroyed.

In the late 1970's, thanks largely to the efforts of local resident
J. Murray and the Lewiston Historical Preservation Commission, the cemetery
was revitalized. In 1983 it was reactivated under the ownership of the
Town of Lewiston. Today it is a neglected, though still active, rural
cemetery.

R. S. Woolson conducted the following reading in September 2002. A 1936
DAR reading, lot occupant and owner lists from 1872 and 1877, and a
plat of the grounds were used to establish positive identification of
many destroyed or illegible markers. Further comparison was made with
readings done in the 1970's by T. Peirce, M. Standen, and J. Murray,
and cemetery records kept by the Town of Lewiston.

This is a complete transcription of all known and/or visible burials
which I compiled in Sep of 2002, using the above materials. Updated
Oct 2006.